Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Stallkamp, M., R.A. Hunt & A. Schotter. (2022). Scaling, Fast and Slow: The Internationalization of Digital Ventures. Journal of Business Research.

Hunt, R.A., D.A. Lerner, S.A., Johnson, S. Badul, & M. Freeman. (2022). “Cracks in the Wall: Entrepreneurial Action Theory and the Weakening Presumption of Intended Rationality.” Journal of Business Venturing, Forthcoming.

Hunt, R.A., D.A. Lerner, and A.J. Ortiz-Hunt. (2022) “Lassie Shrugged. The Premise and Importance of Considering Non-Human Entrepreneurial Action.” Journal of Business Venturing Insights, Forthcoming

Hayward, M.L.A., R.A. Hunt & D. Miller. (2021). “How Vulnerability Enriches Family Firm Relationships: A Social Exchange Perspective.” Journal of Family Business Strategy. Forthcoming.

Manocha, P., R.A. Hunt, D.M. Townsend, and M. Stallkamp. (2021). “When Rising Tides Lift Some Boats More than Others: Gender-Based Differences in the External Enablement of Entrepreneurship.” Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship. Forthcoming.

Hunt, R.A., Y. Song, D.M. Townsend, and M. Stallkamp (2021) “Internationalization of Entrepreneurial Firms: Leveraging Real Options Reasoning through Affordable Loss Logics.” Journal of Business Research. Forthcoming.

van Lent, W., R.A. Hunt, and D.A. Lerner. (2021) “Back to Which Future? Recalibrating the Time-Calibrated Narratives of Entrepreneurial Action to Account for Non-Deliberative Dynamics.” Academy of Management Review.

Asgari, E., R.A. Hunt, D.M. Townsend, D.A. Lerner, M.L.A. Hayward, K. Kiefer. (2021) “Red Giants or Black Holes? The Antecedent Conditions and Multi-Level Impacts of Star Performers.” Academy of Management Annals.

Hunt, R.A. (2021). “Entrepreneurial Orientation and the Fate of Corporate Acquisitions.” Journal of Business Research.  122(1): 241-255.

Korsgaard, S., R.A. Hunt, D.M. Townsend and M. Ingstrup. (2020). “Covid-19 and the Importance of Space in Entrepreneurship Research and Policy.” International Small Business Journal. Accepted.

*Chen, J.J., *C. Cui, *R.A. Hunt, & *L.S. Li. (2020). “External Enablement of New Venture Creation: An Exploratory, Query-Driven Assessment of China’s High-Speed Rail Expansion.Journal of Business Venturing. * Equal contribution

Mitchell, R., R. Mitchell, R.A. Hunt, D. M. Townsend and J.H. Lee.  (2020). “Stakeholder Engagement, Knowledge Problems and Ethical Challenges.” Journal of Business Ethics.

Kiefer, K., J. Miller, and R.A. Hunt. (2020). “Multi-Level Considerations in Executive Organizational Transfer.Human Resource Management Review.

Hunt, R.A., D.M. Townsend, S. Korsgaard and A. Naar.  (2019). “Urban Farmers and Cowboy Coders: Re-Imagining Rural Venturing in the 21st Century. Academy of Management Perspectives.

Hunt, R.A., D. Lerner and D.M. Townsend. (2019). “Parental Endowments versus Business Acumen: Assessing the Fate of Low-Tech, Service-Sector Spinouts.Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 13(4) 478-506.

Townsend, D. and R.A. Hunt. (2019). “Entrepreneurial Action, Creativity, and Judgment in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.” Journal of Business Venturing Insights. 11, e00126.

Hunt, R.A., D. Townsend, E. Asgari. and D. Lerner. (2019). “Bringing It All Back Home: Corporate Venturing and Renewal through Spin-Ins.Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, 43(6): 1166-1193.

Hunt, R.A. and M.L.A. Hayward. (2018). “Value Creation through Employer Loans: Evidence of Informal Lending to Employees at Small, Labor-Intensive Firms.” Organization Science. 29(2): 284–303.

Townsend, D.M., R.A. Hunt, J. McMullen and S. Sarasvathy. (2018). “Uncertainty, Knowledge Problems, and Entrepreneurial Action”. Academy of Management Annals. 12(2):1-29.

Hunt, R.A. and D.A. Lerner. (2018). “Entrepreneurial Action as Human Action: Sometimes Judgment-driven, Sometimes Not.” Journal of Business Venturing Insights 10(2): e00102.

*Hunt, R.A., *D.A. Lerner, and I. Verheul. (2018).“Dueling Banjos: Harmony and Discord between ADHD and Entrepreneurship.” Academy of Management Perspectives. 32(2): 266-286. *equal contribution

*Lerner, D.A., *R.A. Hunt, and D. Dimov. (2018).“Action! Moving Beyond the Intendedly-Rational Logics of Entrepreneurship.” Journal of Business Venturing. 33(1): 52-69.   *equal contribution

Hunt, R.A. (2018) “An Opportunity Space Odyssey: Historical Exploration of Demand-Driven Entrepreneurial Innovation.European Journal of Innovation Management. 21(2): 250-273.

Hunt, R.A. and L.L. Ortiz-Hunt. (2017) “Entrepreneurial Round Tripping: The Benefits of Newness and Smallness in Multi-Directional Value Creation”. Management Decision, 55(3): 491-511.

Hunt, R.A. and K. Kiefer. (2017) “The Entrepreneurship Industry: Influences of the Goods and Services Marketed to Entrepreneurs.Journal of Small Business Management. 55(S1): 231-255

Hunt, R.A. and B. Fund. (2016) “Intergenerational Fairness and the Crowding Out Effects of Well-Intended Environmental Policy.”  Journal of Management Studies, 53(5): 878-910.

Hunt, R.A. (2015) “Contagion Entrepreneurship: Institutional Support, Strategic Incoherence and the Social Costs of Over-Entry.”Journal of Small Business Management. 53(10): 5 – 29.

Hunt, R.A. (2013) “Entrepreneurial Tweaking: Technology Diffusion through Secondary Inventions and Design Modifications by Start-Ups.”European Journal of Innovation Management,16 (2): 148 – 170.

Hunt, R.A. and B.R. Fund. (2012) “Reassessing the Practical and Theoretical Influence of Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition.” Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance,16 (1): 29 – 56.

Peer-Reviewed Proceedings

Hunt, R.A. D.M. Townsend and J-H Jin. (2021). “Knowledge Problem Diagnosis and the Fate of Corporate Entrepreneurship Initiatives” Full Paper published in Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, Volume 41.

*Hunt, R.A. and *D.M. Townsend. (2020). “Barriers on the Road to Commensurability: The Impact of Binary Oppositions and Ceremonial Citations on Knowledge Accumulation in Entrepreneurship Research.” Full Paper published in Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, Volume 40.*Listed alphabetically. Equal contribution

Yan, J., D. Williams, and R.A. Hunt. (2020). A Real Options Perspective on the Pattern and Process of Entrepreneurial Firms Internationalization. Full Paper published in Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, Volume 40.

Ortiz-Hunt, A.B., R.A. Hunt, and D.A. Lerner. (2019). “Sustainable human healthcare: The centrality of intrapreneurial nurses.” In Guclu Atinc (Ed.), Best Paper Proceedings of the Seventy-ninth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Online ISSN: 2151-6561.

Hunt, R.A. and D.A. Lerner. (2018) “Disentangling the Origins of New Venture Performance: Business Models, Individual Factors, and Heredity.” Full Paper published in Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, Volume38.

Lerner, D.A., R.A. Hunt and D. Dimov. (2017) “Following the Muse: Non-Deliberative, Unreasoned Nascent-Stage Venturing”. In Guclu Atinc (Ed.) Best Paper Proceedings of the Seventy-seventh Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management.

Hunt, R.A. and Y. Song. (2015) “Internationalizing Entrepreneurs: Bridging Real Options Reasoning and Affordable Loss Logics.” In John Humphreys (Ed.), Best Paper Proceedings of the Seventy-fifth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Online ISSN: 2151-6561.

Hunt, R.A. and K. Kiefer. (2015) “The Entrepreneurship Industry: Influences of the Goods and Services Marketed to Entrepreneurs.” In John Humphreys (Ed.), Best Paper Proceedings of the Seventy-fifth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Online ISSN: 2151-6561.

Ortiz-Hunt, L.L. and R.A. Hunt. (2015) “Entrepreneurial Round Tripping: The Benefits of Newness and Smallness in Multi-Directional Value Creation”. Full Paper published in Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, Volume35.

Hunt, R.A. and E. Asgari. (2015) “The Curious Case of Corporate Spin-ins: Generating Profits or Problems?” Full Paper published in Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, Volume35.

Hunt, R.A. and B.R. Fund. (2015) “Crowding Out Effects of Well-Intended Environmental Policies.” Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, Volume35(11): 1-15.

Hunt, R.A. (2013) “Priming the Pump: Demand-side Drivers of Entrepreneurial Activity.” Full Paper published in Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, Volume33(14): 472-487.

Hunt, R.A. and K. Kiefer. (2012) “Parity, Paternalism and Peonage in the Informal Economy.Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management, doi:10.5465/AMBPP 2015 (50).

Hunt, R.A. and D. Lerner. (2012) “Reassessing the Entrepreneurial Spinoff Performance Advantage: A Natural Experiment Involving A Complete Population.” Full Paper published in Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, Volume32 (12): 468 – 482.

Hunt, R.A. (2012) “Entrepreneurial Tweaking: Technology Diffusion through Secondary Inventions and Design Modifications by Start-Ups.”Full Paper published in Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, Volume 32 (15): 570 – 584.

Book Chapters

Saleh, S.H. and R.A. Hunt. (2020), “The Role of Heuristics and Biases in Entrepreneurial Decision-making When Creativity is a Necessity“, Caputo, A. and Pellegrini, M. (Ed.) The Entrepreneurial Behaviour: Unveiling the Cognitive and Emotional Aspect of Entrepreneurship (Entrepreneurial Behaviour Series), Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 191-212.

Townsend, D.M., R.A. Hunt, and P. Manocha. (2021) “The Path Beyond the Opportunity Wars: Exploring the Continued Relevance of McMullen
and Shepherd (2006) for the Future of Entrepreneurial Action Theory.” Chapter 7, in B. Ozkazanc-Pan (ed.) Modern Classics in Entrepreneurship Studies. Palgrave-McMillan.

Townsend, D. and R.A. Hunt. (2019) “Crowdfunding and the Digitization of Early-Stage Finance: Opportunities and Challenges for Entrepreneurial Ventures”. In A. Parhankangas (ed.) Handbook of Research on Crowdfunding. New York: Routledge.

Hunt, R.A. and L.L. Ortiz-Hunt. (2018) “Deinstitutionalization Through Business Model Evolution: Women Entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North Africa.” In L. Mura (ed.)  Entrepreneurship – Development Tendencies and Empirical Approach. Rijeka, Croatia: InTech.

Kiefer, K. and R.A. Hunt. (2017) “Whose Hype Matters? The Battle for Value Creation in Contemporary Financial Communications.” In A. Laskin (ed.), Handbook of Financial Communication and Investor Relations. New York: Wiley.

Hunt, R.A., and L.L. Ortiz-Hunt. (2017) “Steam Ships on the Western Waterways: Managing the Challenge of Multi-Directional Value Creation.” In M. Paulo (ed.) Innovating Entrepreneurs: An Historical Approach. Princeton, N.J.: Brownlee Press, Inc.